Chapter Summaries

Shirou Emiya and his allies breached the Hanging Garden, forcing Semiramis to retreat as Shirou resumed his duel with Karna. Elsewhere, Chiron used precise calculations to wound Achilles and destroy Pegasus, prompting Achilles to abandon his chariot and confront his teacher directly.

• Astolfo destroyed Black Stone Slabs until Karna confronted him, while Shirou Emiya revealed that he had already sent Atalanta into the Hanging Garden and planned to bring in Frankenstein and Jeanne.
• Atalanta surprised Semiramis and fired Written Complaint Arrow through the Hanging Garden’s roof, showering the structure with arrows of light and destroying much of it.
• Astolfo reached Atalanta and then departed to help Jeanne enter the courtyard, while Semiramis teleported away and Shirou Emiya charged at Karna to continue their duel.
• Chiron calculated Achilles’s movements and shot him and Pegasus, piercing the horse’s Spirit Core and forcing its disappearance.
• Achilles abandoned his chariot, reached the aircraft where Chiron stood, and declared that he had come to learn his teacher’s techniques.

Shirou Emiya and Karna fought an escalating duel, with Shirou Emiya’s immunity to fire forcing Karna to convert his flames into magical energy. Meanwhile, Astolfo and Jeanne entered the Hanging Garden as Semiramis intensified its defenses, and the story left Shirou Emiya and Karna still battling amid the ruins.

• Shirou Emiya and Karna fought at full strength, trading weapon strikes and wounds before both unleashed their magical energy.
• Karna extinguished his flames and converted them into magical energy after Shirou Emiya’s fire immunity limited his strength.
• Shirou Emiya and Karna’s attacks shattered the stone slabs, and they moved their duel into the Hanging Garden.
• Astolfo rescued Jeanne from Semiramis’s bombardment and carried her to the Hanging Garden, where they set out for the Greater Holy Grail.
• Semiramis activated the Hanging Garden’s defenses to separate Atalanta and Frankenstein from Jeanne and Astolfo.
• Shirou Emiya and Karna continued exchanging Noble Phantasms as their battle reached its climax and devastated the surrounding buildings.

Achilles created an isolated arena with his Noble Phantasm to settle his duel with Chiron through fair, unarmed combat. Chiron accepted, and the two heroes began their final fight with fists.

• Achilles realized he could not defeat Chiron quickly with his spear and arrows, so he hurled his spear into the aircraft to create a separate world.
• Achilles explained that the arena prevented outside interference and stopped time, and that victory inside would determine the outcome outside.
• Achilles told Chiron he had created the arena to fight Hector fairly, and Chiron agreed to the duel.
• Achilles declared that they would fight fist against fist without using their weapons, and both revealed their true names before starting the fight.

Jeanne and Astolfo reached Semiramis in the Hanging Garden, where she revealed the route to the Greater Holy Grail but kept Astolfo behind to fight. As Jeanne headed underground to face Red Caster, Semiramis activated her Noble Phantasm against Astolfo, while Shirou Emiya and Karna’s battle reached its climax.

• Jeanne and Astolfo broke through the Hanging Garden’s defenses and entered the Throne Room, where Semiramis directed Jeanne toward the Greater Holy Grail.
• Semiramis ordered Astolfo to stay behind, and he convinced Jeanne to continue alone while he faced the Empress.
• Jeanne passed through the hidden door to confront Red Caster as Semiramis prepared to fight Astolfo before Atalanta and Frankenstein arrived.
• Semiramis activated her second Noble Phantasm, Wine of the Arrogant King, against Astolfo.
• At the outskirts of the Hanging Garden, Shirou Emiya and Karna fought fiercely as their battle approached its decisive moment.

Shirou Emiya and Karna pushed their battle to its decisive stage, unleashing their strongest attacks amid snow and flames. Their collision shook the Hanging Garden and affected nearly everyone in the area, leaving Semiramis astonished as the structure began to tilt.

• Shirou Emiya and Karna fought across the Hanging Garden until they recognized that ordinary attacks could not decide the battle.
• Karna sacrificed his armor to summon his Divine Spear, while Shirou Emiya prepared his own ultimate attack with his sword.
• Shirou Emiya and Karna invoked For the Vow in the Snow! and O Sun, Obey Death!, sending snow and flames crashing together.
• The impact sent a destructive shock wave across the area and shook the Hanging Garden.
• Semiramis felt the Hanging Garden tilt during her confrontation with Astolfo and wondered what was happening.

Shirou Emiya and Karna’s evenly matched duel threatened to overturn Semiramis’s Hanging Garden as Atalanta and Frankenstein confronted her. Achilles defeated Chiron, but Chiron’s final Noble Phantasm pierced Achilles’s heel before Achilles flew toward the Hanging Garden to continue the war.

• Shirou Emiya and Karna clashed with such force that their battle tilted Semiramis’s Hanging Garden, while Semiramis struggled to defend herself from Astolfo’s anti-poison cloak.
• Atalanta and Frankenstein broke into the Throne Room, and Semiramis summoned Bašmu to fight them.
• Achilles shattered Chiron’s Spirit Core and thanked his former teacher, but Chiron urged him to treat him as an enemy and deliver the final blow.
• Chiron revealed that his Noble Phantasm, Scorpio’s Shot, had already locked onto Achilles and fired a meteor that pierced Achilles’s heel.
• Chiron disappeared, and Achilles summoned his chariot and flew toward the Hanging Garden despite his grievous wound.

Shirou Emiya defeated Karna after piercing his Spirit Core with a projected blade, then used an Elixir and potions to recover as Achilles arrived. The battered Shirou and Achilles faced each other among the ruins and began their second battle.

• Shirou Emiya and Karna exhausted their magical energy in a final clash, then pierced each other with their weapons.
• Shirou Emiya projected a blade from Gan Jiang Mo Ye and drove it into Karna's Spirit Core, fatally wounding him.
• Karna accepted his defeat and vanished after urging Shirou Emiya to seize the final victory.
• Shirou Emiya used an Elixir and a Mental Strength Potion to heal and restore some magical energy.
• Shirou Emiya shot an arrow at Achilles as he flew toward the Hanging Garden, drawing him into the ruins.
• Shirou Emiya and Achilles exchanged taunts, raised their swords, and began their second battle.

Jeanne confronted Shakespeare in the Greater Holy Grail chamber, where he revealed that his Noble Phantasm trapped people in a scripted stage rather than altering the world itself. As it activated, Jeanne found herself transformed into her younger self in Domremy Village, with her armor and holy flag gone.

• Jeanne reached the Greater Holy Grail chamber and called out Red Caster, Shakespeare.
• Shakespeare refused to surrender, saying Jeanne had failed to arrive in time and would die there.
• Jeanne charged Shakespeare, and he activated his Noble Phantasm, “The Show Is About to Start, Offer Thunderous Applause Here.”
• The surroundings changed into Domremy Village, and Jeanne found herself in her younger body without her armor or holy flag.

Shirou Emiya and Achilles fought a final, exhausting duel after both had already been badly wounded. Shirou’s swordsmanship reached the Divine Realm, and his Hundred Head Slayer struck Achilles nine times before Achilles collapsed.

• Achilles abandoned his chariot and fought Shirou Emiya with Comet Dash, spear attacks, and sudden punches.
• Shirou and Achilles exchanged wounds until their armor and remaining strength were nearly exhausted.
• Shirou and Achilles praised each other’s fighting spirit and agreed to stake everything on one final clash.
• Shirou fought on instinct as the sword techniques he had learned from Chiron, Edelweiss, and Ikki Kurogane transformed his swordsmanship into the Divine Realm.
• Shirou unleashed Hundred Head Slayer, striking Achilles with nine slashes, and Achilles praised the attack before collapsing.

Shirou Emiya defeated Karna and learned that Serenity had died after entering the Hanging Garden in search of Astolfo. Astolfo also disappeared after Serenity’s death, while Semiramis escaped and headed toward the Masters; Shirou left Caules behind and continued toward the final battle.

• Shirou Emiya finished his battle with Karna, recovered with potions, and met Caules, who explained that Serenity had split off to find Astolfo.
• In the Throne Room, Astolfo said goodbye to Atalanta and Frankenstein and disappeared after Serenity’s death.
• Atalanta explained that Serenity’s arrival had interrupted their fight with Semiramis, who escaped after learning Achilles had been defeated.
• Shirou Emiya telepathically directed Atalanta and Frankenstein to help Jeanne at the Greater Holy Grail.
• Shirou Emiya arrived with Caules, told him to stay behind because Semiramis was too dangerous to Masters, and went through the door toward the final confrontation.

Jeanne resisted Shakespeare’s Noble Phantasm as Shiro Tokisada Amakusa gained control of the Greater Holy Grail and announced his plan to grant immortality to all humanity through the Third Magic. As Gilles and Shiro tried to persuade Jeanne, Shirou Emiya arrived with Atalanta and Frankenstein to oppose them.

• Jeanne remained steadfast against Shakespeare’s visions, and Shakespeare sensed that Shiro Tokisada Amakusa was about to emerge from the Greater Holy Grail.
• Shiro Tokisada Amakusa gained control of the Greater Holy Grail, prompting Shakespeare to end his Noble Phantasm and release Jeanne.
• Shiro Tokisada Amakusa told Semiramis and Jeanne that the Greater Holy Grail would soon reach Heaven’s Feel and grant immortality to all humanity through the Third Magic.
• Gilles confronted Jeanne with his guilt over his crimes and urged her to accept Shiro Tokisada Amakusa’s plan as humanity’s salvation.
• Shirou Emiya arrived with Atalanta and Frankenstein and declared that Shiro Tokisada Amakusa’s plan was salvation only for himself.

Shirou Emiya confronted Amakusa Shiro Tokisada’s plan to grant humanity immortality, arguing that it would erase human desires and might hasten the Iron Earth by draining the planet’s Ley Lines. Amakusa refused to abandon his wish over a possibility, and the two sides prepared to fight.

• Shirou Emiya arrived with Atalanta and Frankenstein and challenged Amakusa Shiro Tokisada’s claim that his plan would save all humanity.
• Shirou argued that turning people into spiritual bodies would eliminate human desires, reproduction, and meaningful activity.
• Shirou explained that humanity’s destruction of the planet could cause Gaia to unleash the Solar System’s UO and bring about the Iron Earth.
• Shirou warned that the magical energy needed for Amakusa’s wish could drain Ley Lines and accelerate or trigger the Iron Earth.
• Amakusa dismissed the danger as only a possibility and refused to give up his wish.
• Jeanne, Atalanta, and Frankenstein took battle stances as Semiramis moved in front of Amakusa and the two sides prepared to fight.

Jeanne rejected Gilles's plan for Human Salvation and urged him to bear his guilt while helping the living. Shirou Emiya's side then confronted Shiro Tokisada Amakusa and Semiramis, beginning the final battle with their forces divided across the battlefield.

• Jeanne told Gilles that he could not seek atonement by making humanity's salvation his responsibility, and offered to share his burden as they helped the living.
• Shirou Emiya revealed that he had delayed Amakusa to recover, then assigned Jeanne and Frankenstein to fight Semiramis and Atalanta to support them and target Shakespeare.
• Shirou Emiya and Shiro Tokisada Amakusa charged at each other and clashed swords as the final battle began.
• Jeanne and Frankenstein attacked Semiramis, who answered with Magic Cannons and chains.
• Atalanta fired arrows at Semiramis, who raised a magical shield and called her a traitor; Atalanta replied that she had never been loyal.

Shirou Emiya defeated Shiro Tokisada Amakusa, but Semiramis intervened and was impaled alongside him. With Amakusa's wish still underway but not immediately dangerous, Shirou turned to fulfilling his own wish.

• Shirou Emiya overpowered Shiro Tokisada Amakusa despite his shortage of magical energy and drove him into a stone pillar.
• Shiro Tokisada Amakusa declared that the Greater Holy Grail could no longer be stopped, while Semiramis tried to reach him.
• Shirou Emiya broke Amakusa's guard and thrust at his heart, but Semiramis teleported in front of him and was stabbed through her Spirit Core along with Amakusa.
• Semiramis teleported away with the dying Amakusa, and Shirou let them have time to say farewell.
• Shirou Emiya explained to Jeanne that Amakusa's plan would transform people gradually as the Hanging Garden traveled, so they did not need to destroy the Greater Holy Grail immediately.
• Shirou Emiya told Jeanne and the others that they would fulfill their own wish first.

After the Black Faction won the Holy Grail War, Shirou Emiya used the Greater Holy Grail to obtain a soul-restoration formula and give Jeanne, Atalanta, and Frankenstein physical bodies before destroying it. With his plans in this world complete, he began an experiment to see whether he could take Atalanta to another world in a box.

• Shirou Emiya asked the Greater Holy Grail for a formula to perfectly restore souls and confirmed that it had enough magical energy to give Jeanne, Atalanta, and Frankenstein physical bodies.
• The Greater Holy Grail granted Shirou his formula and fulfilled the three Servants' wish, freeing Leticia from Jeanne's possession.
• Shirou destroyed the Greater Holy Grail with High-Class Excalibur, ending the Holy Grail War and preventing Shiro Tokisada Amakusa's wish from coming true.
• Shirou helped the Thousand Tree Family and the Mage's Association reconcile, later became a Grand Magus, and learned Touko Aozaki's Puppet Magecraft.
• After completing his plans, Shirou prepared to test whether he could bring a person to another world inside a spatial box, and Atalanta volunteered to be the subject.
• Shirou left for a new world while Jeanne agreed to look after Caules, Frankenstein, and Leticia.

Shirou Emiya returned to his former world with Atalanta and recovered Sakura Matou's remaining soul, planning to restore her in a new body. After preserving Sakura's original body, he took Atalanta into the Emiya Family home.

• Shirou Emiya returned to the ruined space where he and Angelica had fought, then opened the box and freed Atalanta.
• Shirou Emiya and Atalanta recognized that they had arrived in Fuyuki City and hurried toward his home.
• Shirou Emiya gathered Sakura Matou's soul fragments into a magical orb.
• Shirou Emiya planned to repair Sakura's soul and make her a new body, then preserved her original body as a template.
• Shirou Emiya brushed the snow from Atalanta and led her into the Emiya Family home.

Shirou Emiya restored Sakura Matou to life by transferring her repaired soul into a newly made body. Reunited, they shared their feelings and ended the night together, while Atalanta watched with growing jealousy.

• Shirou Emiya completed the body he had been making for Sakura Matou and transferred her soul into it.
• Sakura Matou awoke, thanked Shirou Emiya, and told him she had watched his efforts from inside the orb.
• Shirou Emiya and Sakura Matou reunited and prepared dinner together, making Atalanta feel displeased by their closeness.
• Shirou Emiya told Sakura Matou how he had defeated Karna, Achilles, and Shiro Tokisada Amakusa and obtained the knowledge needed to save her.
• Sakura Matou insisted on staying with Shirou Emiya, and the two spent the night together.

Shirou Emiya enjoyed a happy morning with Sakura Matou, then discovered that his swordsmanship had grown stronger and continued researching magecraft. When Angelica challenged him, he went alone to meet her at the ruins where he had found Miyu and vowed to oppose her as long as she targeted Miyu.

• Shirou Emiya woke beside Sakura Matou and playfully kept her in bed instead of going to morning training.
• Shirou Emiya practiced his sword in the falling snow and realized that his sword aura had grown sharper after a change in his state of mind.
• Shirou Emiya continued developing a magecraft hypothesis while living with Sakura Matou and Atalanta.
• Shirou Emiya sensed a powerful challenge, told Atalanta to protect Sakura Matou, and left to face the opponent alone.
• Shirou Emiya met Angelica at the ruins where he had found Miyu and declared that he would oppose her while Miyu remained her target.

Shirou Emiya confronted Angelica and fought her with projected weapons while chanting Unlimited Blade Works. Inside the reality marble, their weapon volleys reached a stalemate, leaving Shirou to seek a way to suppress both her Gate of Babylon and her trump card, Garisong.

• Angelica attacked Shirou Emiya with Noble Phantasms, while Shirou charged and projected weapons in response.
• Shirou chanted Unlimited Blade Works during the battle, enduring Angelica’s attacks with his Dragon’s Blood Armor and then Karna’s armor.
• Shirou completed Unlimited Blade Works and brought himself and Angelica into its sword-filled world.
• Shirou and Angelica exchanged countless Noble Phantasms until neither gained an advantage.
• Shirou realized that defeating Angelica required suppressing the Gate of Babylon and overcoming Garisong head-on.

Shirou Emiya and Angelica fought with their strongest Anti-World Noble Phantasms, and their attacks proved evenly matched. After Shirou escaped Angelica’s Chains of Heaven, the two ended the battle without a victor and went their separate ways.

• Angelica questioned how much Shirou had improved, and he explained that he had trained for several years while she experienced only half a month.
• Shirou and Angelica unleashed their Anti-World Noble Phantasms, destroying the surrounding area before their attacks canceled each other out.
• Angelica bound Shirou with the Chains of Heaven after sensing divinity in his projected weapons.
• Shirou used Tsumugari Muramasa’s power to sever the chains and free himself.
• Shirou declared that neither could defeat the other and left; Angelica let him go and considered returning with an ally.